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Medical Terminology
Chapter 1: Part 4 of 6 Intro to Suffixes: Always Appearing
Term | Definition |
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-osis | abnormal condition (remember: means anything is wrong) |
-pathy | disease or disorder (remember:specific to) |
-gram | a record (remember: thing or product you can hold in your hand) |
-graphy | the process of recording (remember: produces a gram) |
-scope | instrument used to visualize or examine (remember: stethoscope) |
-scopy | process of examining (remember: endoscopy) |
-ologist | a specialist in a field (remember: person/gynecologist) |
-ology | specialty itself (remember: area of study - oncology) |